The World: Capturing West Germany's Clyde

COME out," shouted the policeman through a loudspeaker. "Your chances
are zero." The defiant answer from the men trapped in a garage in a
residential section of Frankfurt last week was a hail of gunfire. The
police, supported by a lumbering armored car, poured bullets and
tear-gas canisters into the building. Then, after there were screams
from the garage, the police commanded the outlaws to take off their
clothes and come out one by one. Clad only in dark shorts, the first to
surrender was Holger Meins, 30 (left), a key member of the notorious
terrorist gang bossed by West Germany's...